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P. RICHARDSON.

Line Guide for Fishing Rod.

No. 234,812. Patented Nov. 23,1880.

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FREDERICK RICHARDSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM MILLS 8t SON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LINE-GUIDE FOR FISHING-RODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,812, dated November 23, 1880.

Application filed September 14, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK RICHARD- SON, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Line- Guides for Fishing-Rods, of which the follow in g is a specification.

The object of my invention is to furnish a line-guide for attachment to the sides or tips of fishing-rods which may be easily formed from a single piece of sheet metal, and which, therefore, can be made very light and at a small cost.

To this end my invention consists in a line 1 guide for a fishing-rod composed of a single piece of metal comprising two tangs or prongs and eyes bent at an angle to said tangs or prongs and connected at their meeting edges.

It also consists in a novel form of blank,

hereinafter to be described, for forming such a guide.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the blank from which the lineguide for the side of the rod is to be formed. Fig.

2 represents a perspective view of the lineguide when completed. Fig. 3 represents a perspective "iew of the line-guide attached to a portion of a fishing-rod. Fig. 4 represents a blank from which a guide for the tip may 0 be made, and Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the completed tipguide.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the blank 5 A, which is formed by stamping or cutting from sheet or plate metal-such as brass or German silveris composed of two tangs or prongs, a, and two eyes, I), from which said tangs or prongs project, and which are them- 0 selves united by means of a short neck, 0.

After being cut or stamped out the blanks (No model.)

are bent, by means of any suitable tool or machine, so that the eyes I) stand upward at an angle to the tangs or prongs. They might be bent until the eyes stand at right angles to 5 the tangs or prongs and parallel with each other; but preferably they form obtuse angles with the tangs or prongs and converge toward each other, they being united at their meeting edges by the neck 6. 0

After being bent into proper shape the guide is attached to a rod by means of thread or wire lashed round the rod and the tangs or prongs, as shown at (I, Fig. 3.

Referring to Figs. 4 and 5, B designates the blank from which the tip-guide is to be formed, and which comprises two tangs or prongs, a, their eyes I), and two short necks, 0, connecting the eyes. After cutting out, the blank is v bent up into the form shown in Fig. 5, the two tangs being brought together with the two end eyes diverging from the tangs and connected by the middle eye. The two tangs may be inserted in a socket and secured to the tip in the usual way.

The guides may be lacquered, plated, or finished in any desirable manner.

What I claim as my invention, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A line-guide for a fishing-rod composed of a single piece of metal comprising two tangs or prongs and eyes bent at an angle to said tangs or prongs and connected at their meeting edges, substantially as specified.

2. The sheet-metal blank for a line-guide, comprising the two eyes I), the neck 0, connecting said eyes, and the tangs or prongs a, substantially as specified.

FREDERICK RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, A. O. WEBB. 

